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Bio: Teri J. McDermott, M.A. C.M.I. earned a Masters' degree in Instructional Design/Television in 1978 from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Summa Cum Laude. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Art, Cum Laude, from the University of Illinois Medical Center (1975). She has conducted a successful full-time freelance practice since 1981, working primarily with editorial, advertising and patient education projects, with clients both in the U.S. and overseas. Teri has been an honorary Clinical Assistant Professor with the program in Biomedical Visualization, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, since 1985.
Teri has been a professional member of the Association of Medical Illustrators since 1977, earned her Fellowship in 1988, and was among the first group of medical illustrators to become board certified in 1993. She served as President of the AMI from 1994-5. She is also a founding member of the Illustrators Partnership of America (IPA). Teri has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences over the past twenty years, including the Association of Medical Illustrators, the Association of Educational Communications Technologists, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Medical Artists Association (Great Britain), the AEIMS Association (Europe) and the Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration.
Her work was included in The Best in Medical Advertising and Graphics, vols. I & II, and in exhibitions at Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and elsewhere in the US, Australia, Great Britain and France. By invitation, Teri presented a one-person show of 65 color paintings at Chicago's International Museum of Surgical Sciences in 1994.
Teri's illustrations have won over thirty awards for creative excellence from the Association of Medical Illustrators, the World Congress on Biomedical Communications, DESI Awards for Graphic Design: USA, the Rx Club of New York, and others. Her life and work were showcased in a feature article published by Airbrush Action magazine in its February 1997 issue. Although a perfectionist at traditionally executed work, Teri currently produces and delivers her work in digital media.